Ranked purely by parent interest — the number of families who opened each school’s profile and spent time reading it between September 2025 and August 2026.
Cedar House operates as a combined prep and high school in Kenilworth, Cape Town, with a Prep campus at 27 Wetton Road and a High School campus at 5 Ascot Road. It follows the South African curriculum for students aged 9 to 18, covering Grades 4–12 and preparing learners for the National Senior Certificate examinations with IEB involvement. The school offers enrichment through Life Sciences Camp and Physical Sciences Camp, along with CAT and Design levies that support computing and design activities. Arts and drama are supported by Art Levy and Drama Levy, and IsiXhosa Camp provides language and cultural learning. Community and service are emphasised via the Social Action Levy, with Grade Camps delivering outdoor, experiential learning and teamwork experiences. Grade 4–9 Life Orientation Levy is charged every second year. The school also hosts events such as Food Day and Grade Day as part of student life and wellbeing.
El Shaddai Christian School is an independent, co‑educational Christian school in the Durbanville suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Founded by El Shaddai Christian Church, it offers education from Grade 00 to Grade 12 (approximately ages 4–18) across two campuses: a main campus for primary and high school and a separate pre‑primary facility on the same property. The school operates Afrikaans and English streams in the lower grades (Grade 00–5) with instruction primarily in English from about Grade 6 upwards. Its curriculum is WCED‑based (CAPS) through the lower grades and transitions to Cambridge International programmes in the senior phase, with pupils taking Cambridge IGCSE and AS‑level qualifications. The school publishes provision for aftercare, cultural activities and a limited sports programme. El Shaddai also states that Christian discipleship and a Biblically integrated approach to learning are central features of its programme.
Springfield Convent School is an independent Catholic day school for girls in Wynberg, Cape Town, serving Nursery to Grade 12 (ages 3–18). It follows the South African national curriculum within a Dominican Catholic ethos and the school states that English is the language of learning and teaching. Springfield's language policy affirms the teaching of Afrikaans and isiXhosa as additional South African languages and offers French in the Senior School. The school describes a play‑based preschool, a balanced Junior curriculum and a Senior programme that includes core academic subjects and 21st‑century options such as coding and robotics. The campus occupies historic gardens on Wynberg Hill and the school lists established music, art and drama departments alongside extensive sports facilities; it operates as a day school with no boarding. Admissions, curriculum and policy documents on the school website provide these details.
Cedar House operates as a combined prep and high school in Kenilworth, Cape Town, with a Prep campus at 27 Wetton Road and a High School campus at 5 Ascot Road. It follows the South African curriculum for students aged 9 to 18, covering Grades 4–12 and preparing learners for the National Senior Certificate examinations with IEB involvement. The school offers enrichment through Life Sciences Camp and Physical Sciences Camp, along with CAT and Design levies that support computing and design activities. Arts and drama are supported by Art Levy and Drama Levy, and IsiXhosa Camp provides language and cultural learning. Community and service are emphasised via the Social Action Levy, with Grade Camps delivering outdoor, experiential learning and teamwork experiences. Grade 4–9 Life Orientation Levy is charged every second year. The school also hosts events such as Food Day and Grade Day as part of student life and wellbeing.
The International School of Cape Town (ISCT) is a private Cambridge school based in Claremont, Cape Town, operating across two campuses (Struben House for Early Years/Key Stage 1 and Woodland Heights for Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 and High School). ISCT delivers the Cambridge curriculum from Cambridge Early Years and Primary through Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge International AS & A Level, and serves children from Nursery (3 years 6 months) through to the end of A‑levels (around 18 years). The language of instruction is English, with support for learners from diverse language backgrounds. Additional languages taught include Afrikaans, Xhosa, French and Spanish: in Years 3–4 pupils study one South African language (Afrikaans or Xhosa) and one European language (French or Spanish), and from Year 5 pupils choose French, Spanish or Afrikaans to continue to IGCSE. Notable facilities and features include purpose‑built Early Years classrooms and a 500‑year‑old yellowwood tree at Struben House, terraced gardens at Woodland Heights, access to on‑ and off‑campus sports facilities, specialist drama and music teachers, and a programme of project‑based learning in middle years.
Bishops Diocesan College is an independent Anglican boys' school on the Rondebosch campus in Cape Town, operating Pre-Prep, Prep and College divisions (Grade N/Reception through Grade 12) and serving boys aged 5 to 18. The school follows the South African curriculum through the preparatory and senior grades and publishes National Senior Certificate (Matric) results, while also offering a Cambridge International Advanced programme (AS and A Levels) in the senior years. English is the language of instruction; Afrikaans, isiXhosa and French are taught across the school (with Afrikaans/isiXhosa as First Additional Language options and French/IGCSE options in the senior phases). The campus publishes an extensive range of sporting and indoor facilities — including multiple rugby and cricket fields, an astro-turf hockey pitch, seven tennis courts, an eight-lane 25 m pool, an international waterpolo pool, indoor sports and squash courts, rowing and water-sport provision at Zeekoeivlei — and operates a house system with day and boarding houses as part of its pastoral provision.
Somerset College is an independent, co-educational day and boarding school in Cape Town, South Africa, serving children from Grade 000 to Grade 12 (typically ages 3–18) on a 32‑hectare Western Cape Winelands campus. The school offers South Africa's National Senior Certificate through the IEB alongside an internationally recognised Cambridge AS and A‑Level pathway, reflecting its British and South African curricular provision within a Christian ethos supported by a formal chaplaincy. English is the language of instruction; learners may study Afrikaans or isiXhosa as First Additional Languages and choose French or German as Second Languages. Boarding is available from Grade 8 upward. The college publishes a broad co‑curricular and facilities programme, including outdoor education, sports, performing arts, rowing, robotics and an ESTEAM (Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) project‑based initiative; the preparatory school also describes use of Google Apps in its hybrid curriculum.
Annual fees
Fees not listed
Ages
3 to 18 years
Curriculum
British Curriculum, Christian Curriculum, South African Curriculum
Blouberg International School is an international Cambridge school in Cape Town (Parklands) at 74 Ringwood Drive, offering education from Nursery through Year 13. The school follows the Cambridge curriculum across its phases (Nursery and Early Years, Junior and Senior Primary, and High School) and accepts Early Years learners from around age three. English is the primary language of instruction; the school also delivers a formal languages programme in Afrikaans, German and Spanish with those languages introduced in the primary phase and progressing into elective options in later years. Notable facilities and provisions published on the school website include an Apple lab and Robotics programmes, library and specialist teaching, plus practical family offerings such as a canteen, transport, annual camp, early/after‑school care, clubs and pastoral support; the school also supports Cambridge private candidates. Blouberg is part of the Global SEK‑IES network and presents Cambridge assessment routes including IGCSEs and optional A Levels in the upper school.
Constantia Waldorf School is a co-educational Waldorf school on a seven-hectare campus in Constantia, Cape Town, offering the Waldorf curriculum from early childhood through to Matric for ages 3 to 18. Teaching follows the Waldorf approach with Main Lesson blocks, an emphasis on arts and handwork, continuity of the primary class teacher, and weekly eurythmy; the school prepares students for the South African National Senior Certificate (Matric). The medium of instruction is English, and learners receive weekly additional language tuition including Afrikaans and isiXhosa. The campus includes purpose-built specialist facilities for Art, Chemistry, Handwork, Woodwork, Pottery and Jewellery Design, a Sports Gym, Library, craft shop and halls, and an Outdoor Classroom and environmental programme where many lessons and practical activities (gardening, building, animal care) take place. The school also follows the Waldorf rhythm of seasonal festivals and places notable emphasis on practical, artistic and outdoor learning within its programme.
Abbotts College Rondebosch (Abbotts High School Rondebosch) is a co‑educational private day high school located in Belmont Office Park, Belmont Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town. The campus offers Grades 8–12 (ages 13–18) and delivers South African senior‑phase and further‑education work that leads to the National Senior Certificate; the group notes that the IEB National Senior Certificate has been phased in from 2021 with the first IEB matric cohort in 2023. Instructional programmes emphasise small class sizes, personalised schooling, seven progress reports a year, mentor support, subject clinics and supervised after‑school homework; the school also uses an ADvLEARN platform for targeted support. The Rondebosch campus cites a non‑traditional model (no uniform policy, no bells) and a programme of extra‑curricular activities including inter‑campus sports days, cultural events, subject excursions and international tours. The school's published materials and several directory listings indicate English as the language of instruction; directory entries list additional language options such as Afrikaans and several other modern languages.
